An Advanced Approach to Polymorphic/Metamorpic Malware Detection using Hybrid Clustering Approach

  Harshit Kumar,  Parvinder Kaur

Malware Classification has been a challenging problem in the recent past and several researchers have attempted to solve this problem using various tools. It is security threat which can break machine operation while not knowing user’s data and it's tough to spot its behavior. This paper proposes a novel technique using DBSCAN (Density based Kmeans) algorithmic rule to spot the behavior of malware. After classification from DBSCAN, pattern matching is applied using the instructions pattern in the generated reports. Among of these techniques a pattern based mostly technique is well famed for the detection of malware. For the moderation and improvement of the present system the signature based mostly technique is most popular. The results are found to be quite accurate and better than the existing ones in terms of accuracy.

Keywords- Malware, its sorts and detection based mostly techniques

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1602299
Page Number(s) - 1682-1688
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 2 | June 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Harshit Kumar,  Parvinder Kaur,   "An Advanced Approach to Polymorphic/Metamorpic Malware Detection using Hybrid Clustering Approach ", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 2, pp.1682-1688, June 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1602299.pdf